Global ad competition Young Glory launches into 2015/16 season; brief one now available to view

International ‘creative consistency’ competition Young Glory is back, with its first of eight briefs targeted at students and emerging industry talent now live on youngglory.com.

The global award program that touts itself as the ‘Tour de France of advertising’ runs over 8 months, with 8 different judges issuing 8 different briefs. Points are accumulated by teams of up to two people across each round.

Former judges have included R/GA global CCO Nick Law, AKQA Worldwide CCO Rei Inamoto, DDB Global CCO Amir Kassaei and Wieden+Kennedy legend Jim Riswold.

Young Glory has announced on its website that its first two judges for the 2015/16 will be Y&R Asia CCO Marcus Rebeschini (left) and R/GA New York’s Nike creative director Colleen Harlan.

Says Brendan Graham, Australian co-founder: “We started Young Glory in 2011 to put the focus back on talent that has what it takes to deliver day-in day-out in this industry. Anyone can have a one hit wonder idea, but today’s industry needs creatives who can consistently deliver, no matter the brief or channel. Young Glory is all about recognising that ability. After 8 rounds, there are no excuses.”

Last season was Young Glory’s strongest yet, with over 1,500 entries submitted across the 8 rounds.

Enquiries: info@youngglory.com.